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The Stream, August 11, 2021: Piazza San Marco Underwater In Rare Summer Flood

Circle of Blue

Heat waves aren’t just uncomfortable, they’re also deadly to humans, and to animals.” – Nerilie Abram, a climate scientists at Australian National University. According to Reuters , that a draft of the legislation, prepared by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, was under ministerial consultation.

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The Stream, April 5, 2023: Vanuatu Takes World’s Climate Inaction to International Court

Circle of Blue

Crucially, Uganda’s glaciers are disappearing faster than scientists can glean information from them about the country and continent’s climate past and future. The question is whether countries can be sued for failing to reduce carbon emissions.

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Analysis: What challenges face Chile’s new ‘environmentalist’ government?

A Greener Life

One of the strongest names is that of Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate scientist who will take over as the new Minister for the Environment. “My In any case, renewable energy companies may look favourably at the new government and its commitment to decarbonisation. “We

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Getting physical with the climate crisis

Physics World

“One key challenge is to quantify the different combinations of heat and humidity, then to link them with different health outcomes,” says Eunice Lo, a physicist-turned-climate scientist at the University of Bristol , UK. Overall, cement accounts for 3% of the world’s carbon emissions. Wood you believe?

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The huge carbon footprint of large-scale computing

Physics World

As the world grapples with the consequences of climate change, many scientists have begun to face up to the realities of their carbon emissions. It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. According to a 2020 study ( Glob. Courtesy: CERN).

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Petitioners challenging EPA’s new source performance standards for carbon emissions from power plants filed their opening briefs in the D.C. Arizona Board of Regents Filed Notice of Appeal in Climate Scientist Public Records Case.

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Roe v. Wade Draft Bodes Ill for Air, Wetlands and EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

At issue in this case is whether and how the EPA can set standards for carbon emissions at power plants. This, of course, defies the scientific consensus about the damage carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is doing to the planet. There is now a 99.9 After the Massachusetts v.